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 There are no stoppages or detours; rather, there's a</div> <div> fierce determination to get “there.”  And just where is that?  Perhaps we can never know; the destination, if one exists, is part of the mystery this fine collection repeatedly provides, as outside the windows of the hurtling vehicle lies darkness.  Think of Creeley, as he urges his friend to “drive … look/out where yr going”: “the darkness sur-/rounds us.”  Or recall Isabel Archer: “A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see-that's my idea of happiness.”  And the book before you truly provides a (self-) Portrait of a Lady.</div> <div> “Through” indeed.  To drive through is to pierce, and there are poems here which will penetrate, sometimes painfully, especially if you come to them with a male ego (and what male cannot?).  But more: one desires to be through, done.  Or one seeks to go through to “the other side,” where lies “The Unseen.”  In the poem of that title, the first of the second section, Jennifer Campbell writes,</div> <bR> <div> Not a case of a writer seeing the unseen,</div> <div> or finding a world that always existed</div> <div> only to conquer it</div> <bR> <div> but</div> <bR> <div> just a routine</div> <div> de-scaling, a mundane but nearly</div> <div> impossible process: be happy</div> <div> with what you're given.</div> <bR> <div> So there's to be no solution to the mystery but the nearly impossible process of acceptance.  In “Breast Ironing,” “she” can accept the callowness of the “five frat brothers,” for “they knew little of the tricks/and mysteries to a woman's body.”  Can they (or we) ever know of those tricks and mysteries, especially with the multiple suggestions of the word “tricks”?  You will, oh man, be tricked, nor will you ever learn the trick to understanding, the tricks of the relationship trade.  </div> <div> You will be deceived, but the magic abounds; you should work towards acceptance, however nearly impossible.</div> <div> The drive is straight through a huge metaphorical day, during which one must “Descend, look for another way in,” gather “a necessary collection/of concentrations,” until the hour of Reckoning:</div> <bR> <div> At 4 a.m.,</div> <div> I am stormed, drenched</div> <div>           in our insatiable symbiosis.</div> <bR> <div> Reading the subtle lyrics of this book, we can hope to be thus drenched-and with acceptance.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>David Landrey</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Writing poetry has always been my way of understanding the world and making decisions.  While I use imagery to tell brief stories, I continually find myself refining my world view through poetic discoveries.  My work is not easy to produce-I see a tension between a teacher's need for clarity and a poet's desire to always use only the most powerful, original language, so I try to remind myself of T.S. Eliot's insistence: “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Jennifer Campbell</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Jennifer Campbell is an English professor in Buffalo, NY, and a co-editor of <I>Earth's Daughters</I> feminist literary journal.  Her poetry has appeared in <I>HeartLodge</I>, <I>Feile-Festa</I>, <I>Nerve Cowboy</I>, <I>Letterhead</I>, <I>Earth's Daughters</I>,<I> Hudson View</I>, <I>Skyline Magazine</I>, and <I>Literary House</I>.  Her poem “That Siren, Sleep” appears in an anthology titled <I>Mourning Sickness</I> and she received a Pushcart nomination in 2007.  She has work forthcoming in <I>Caesura</I> and <I>Panamowa: a new lit order</I>.</div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> Driving Straight Through</div> <bR> <div> Hurtling through farmland</div> <div> as the sun cocked its eye upon me,</div> <div> I could think of no other word</div> <div> but <I>glory</I> behind the wheel.</div> <bR> <div> That same trip, the deer jolted us.</div> <div> Its slim apparition gliding across</div> <div> the road shocked me into giddiness</div> <div> far more efficiently than slivers</div> <div> of night air or inky music bursting</div> <div> from crackling speakers.</div> <bR> <div> I stumbled in the doorway</div> <div> of the tiny gas station, scraped</div> <div> my knees, hands, nearly hysterical</div> <div> over the <I>realness</I> of it-kneeling</div> <div> before the altar of the Sugar Creek,</div> <div> broken blood vessels were already</div> <div> forming deep purple bruises.</div> <bR> <div> Neither of us slept the rest of the way,</div> <div> just brushed wrists and matched hands</div> <div> from time to time, caught silent</div> <div> in the marvel of red-orange light,</div> <div> far beyond our limits</div> <div> and city vocabulary.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="driving_straight_through"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Driving Straight Through</div> <div> is a 72 page hand-stitched paper book w/spine.</div> <div> $16.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE           <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Palatino Linotype" ><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> From the US or Canada       <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Driving Straight Through"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-28"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> From Other Countries           <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Driving Straight Through"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-28"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div>  <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>